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Friday, January 6, 2012

It's a....BOOK!

Rachel Vidoni and her new baby, Little Changes.

I just wanted to let you all know,
officially here on my blog, that I had my baby. Well, it was a joint labor
really, but the book that Kristi Marsh and I have been working on for the last year
and a half arrived in the mail two days ago, in actual pages. With a binding. And
amazing illustrations. It was
certainly the longest labor of my life; 13,148.7 hours. Not that I was
counting. And while I didn’t need an epidural, there were quite a few hours in
there that required numerous glasses of wine and a lot of sustained breathing
exercises.

When I first signed the contract (over margaritas and
Mexican food) to ghostwrite/edit this book, I had little idea of what it would
entail, but was excited for an opportunity to actually be part of a
book-writing process. Kristi didn’t really know me. I didn’t really know her. I
didn’t know much about the book she wanted to write and I had absolutely no
clue how to work on a project of this nature (which I’ve kept a secret until
now). Honestly, I didn’t know if I was even capable of such a feat, but the
book proposition presented itself, so I pretended I was an expert writer who
could transform anything she handed me into spun gold.

Which of course, I did.

Not very humble sounding, is it? That’s
terrible, I know. I’m not a big one to toot my own horn, but after a labor and
delivery like this one, I’m pretty proud of the book we created and I want to
show it off to the world—just like a first-time mom holding up her newborn
baby. “Isn’t she beautiful?” I know.
How much more narcissistic can I get?

Well, a little more is always
possible apparently.

Little Changes; Tales of a Reluctant Home Eco-Momics Pioneer

That’s my name right there. The
little blue one under the big pink one. My name is in print on the cover.

The honest truth is that it’s a
fabulous story. It’s easy to make a delectable, mouthwatering burger when you
are working with 100% grass-fed, free-range, happy meat. Little
Changes has an amazing and important message. Somewhere around the middle
of the project Kristi asked me, “Why are you doing this? Why are you working so
hard for this book and for me?”

I honestly didn’t have a very
scientific reason for her. The contract I signed notwithstanding, I worked on
this book because I believe in its message. And more than that, as the project
continued, I had this gut-feeling that this book was going to be big.

As
in, BIG.

And just so you know, I’m going to
be blogging about this book A LOT. Mostly because our marketing budget is,
well, smaller than we had hoped. Which is why I’m relying on my family,
friends, and the three other people that read this blog to help me spread the
word. And if you are a blogger/writer and would like a copy to read and review
on your blog, PLEASE leave a comment or send me a message. I’ll make sure you
get a copy pronto.

As things have progressed and the
book is in our hands and so many AMAZING opportunities are coming her/our way,
all I can say is;

Congratulations! Getting published is a real thrill! I remember when I had a poem published in an anthology and then a picture published in an artbook. I know you are simply thrilled and I say keep on going!

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I can only imagine how cool that is – I have several books of pictures, but they are all self-published – pictures from my travels across the country. The Blue Ridge, Missouri, Cumberland Gap – good pictures from the Myrtle Beach resorts oceanfront properties, and nice pics from the low country there in the southeast. Seeing those pictures even in a book I had paid for was great! Congratulations, and I wish you more success!

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